DEP cuts 24 employees

Tallahassee layoffs follow 25 in Tampa

12:52 AM,
Oct. 31, 2012

Written by

Arek Sarkissian II
| Florida Capital Bureau

Reorganization within the state Division of Water Resources Management led to the termination of 24 state workers assigned to its Tallahassee office.

In July, Water Resources Management launched an efficiency assessment. That led the division to eliminate 48 positions, with 24 of them filled. Those positions were managed by the division office in Tallahassee but were held by people around the state.

"A necessary component of this assessment was also looking at our staffing levels and making sure that the Department is being as fiscally responsible as it can be and that staffing levels ...